American Studies:
New Curricula and New Pedagogies for English and the Social Sciences

Fairfield University is delighted to announce the commencement of our partnership program "American Studies: New Curricula and New Pedagogies for English and the Social Sciences," which has received funding for three years from the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The NISCUPP is a bi-national, interdisciplinary educational exchange of Russian and American university faculty who seek to promote cross-institutional relationships among their universities, academic disciplines, and participating faculty to further enhanced understandings of America among Russians, and of Russia among Americans. The project has four major program elements - semester exchanges, summer seminars, American Studies Resource Centers, and Internet communication.

About the program

• Program Description
• Executive Summary

2002 Summer Conference

• Pictures
• Course Descriptions
• Area Studies

• Religious Studies
  Religion in American: Some Statistics
  Bibliography: Religion in America
  Worksheet: Constructing a Syllabus
• Diversity

Biography of Program Participants
The project Co-Directors, Professor David McFadden (Fairfield) and Professor Vladimir Noskov (Herzen) will consult on all matters of approach, philosophy, and organization of the project, both electronically and at all opportunities of personal consultation in both Russia and the United States. They will work under Deans Valentina Smorgunova (Social Sciences at Herzen), Galina Elizarova (Foreign Languages at Herzen), and Timothy Snyder (Arts and Sciences at Fairfield). Dean Smorgunova will serve as the lead administrator on the Herzen side because of the emphasis on Social Science disciplines and the fact that the project director is chair of a department in her faculty. Dr. Julie K. Mueller will work with Professor McFadden on the American side as administrative coordinator. In the regional universities, designated faculty members will serve as coordinators: Anna Karpenko (Philosophy/History) in Kaliningrad, Anna Rodicheva (English) in Cherepovets, and Alexei Feldt (History) in Arkangel'sk.

Program Application